Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever went on sale. Nonetheless, a number of Bordeaux merchants are worried about adverse publicity. After all, there are fresh memories of the notorious Vino Ferrari scandal of 1968, when Italian inspectors discovered that millions of quarts of red wine had been made from banana paste, tar acid, seaweed and other strange ingredients. It took the Italians five years to recover from that public relations disaster, and the Bordeaux wine industry is anxious. According to one story circulating in France, the Japanese are now producing Bordeaux-type wines and labeling them with a warning: BEWARE OF FRENCH IMITATIONS...
Sharpe's characters are not so much etched in acid as flayed. The liberal college master glibly invents the slogan ALTERATION WITHOUT CHANGE. A longtime college servant muses, "Wog's in the Empire were different from wogs outside it and wogs in the Fox Club wasn't wogs at all or they wouldn't be members." There is a TV commentator whose carefully developed public image is that of a "lenient Jeremiah." Perhaps best of all, Sharpe presents a graduate student memorably beset by lust. Too diffident to ask for contraceptives in drugstores (where the clientele...
Cases vary widely. State and local officials are being investigated and indicted in unprecedented numbers. The record of a durable doer like New York's Robert Moses is debunked. The awesome images of Nelson Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger have been leaked on with acid. The public's approval of Presidents, at least as measured by opinion polls, fluctuates wildly...
...toting bank robber in California ordered everyone to "Move!" Customer Linnia Victorine slipped on a carpet and badly sprained her neck; she was awarded $5,000. Payments have ranged from a few dollars to $350,000 for a series of operations on a four-year-old New York boy; acid had been thrown in the child's face by a deranged neighbor...
...year of testing, for instance, Davison found that when he subjected his hypothetical cell to disturbances -the mathematical equivalent of a dose of cosmic rays, say, or a virus-it usually died. Sometimes, however, the disturbances affected the chemical reactions involved in the synthesis of messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid), which carries instructions from DNA, the master molecule of heredity, to the cell's protein-producing machinery. Under these conditions, the cell began to grow wildly, used up energy at an enormous rate and displayed all the earmarks of cancer...